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Monsters: interdisciplinary explorations in monstrosity

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By Helen Hendry, Grosseteste, Milton Keynes, Sibylle Erle
| Nature Verified
Abstract There is a continued fascination with all things monster. This is partly due to the popular reception of Mary Shelley’s Monster, termed a ‘new species’ by its overreaching but admiringly determined maker Victor Frankenstein in the eponymous novel first published in 1818.
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The distorted narratives about Islamic schools deflect from ugly truths about Nigerian society

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By Hadiza Kere Abdulrahman, Grosseteste
| Quartz Verified
Recent reports about the mistreatment of children in Nigeria included news reports of “torture houses” at Islamic schools in a number of states. The catchy news headlines came close to invoking mass hysteria by linking events at the schools to kidnapping, child begging, Boko Haram and Nigeria’s reported 10 million “out of school” children. In this environment, every Nigerian becomes an expert and has a strong opinion.
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Distorted narratives about Islamic schools deflect ugly truths about Nigerian society

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By Grosseteste
| The Conversation Verified
Recent reports about the mistreatment of children in Nigeria included news reports of “torture houses” at Islamic schools in a number of states. The catchy news headlines came close to invoking mass hysteria by linking events at the schools to kidnapping, child begging, Boko Haram and Nigeria’s reported 10 million “out of school” children. In this environment, every Nigerian becomes an expert and has a strong opinion.
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Archaeology and the built environment of early medieval England

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By Duncan Wright, Grosseteste
| Cambridge University Press & Assessment
Extract The bulk of people we can now be assured, were content with something that hardly deserves a better title than that of a hovel […] in such cabins, with bare head room, amid a filthy litter of broken bones, of food and shattered pottery […] lived the Anglo-Saxons (Leeds 1936: 25–26). This quote from E.T. Leeds, a pioneer of Anglo-Saxon archaeology during the first half of the twentieth century, was inspired by his excavation of settlement remains at Sutton Courtenay, then in Berkshire.
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